Anything Goes @ Bugaboo Stamps

It's an ANYTHING GOES challenge at The Bug Blog.  And now that it's February, we're more than ready for the snow, cold weather & grayness to GO AWAY.  

I'm switching over to BRIGHT Spring colors!  :)

Think that will help SPRING come quicker?

Not according to the little furry rat that popped out of the hole on Monday to tell us we have 6 more weeks of winter....>BLAH!

Bright spring colors and butterflies...

Image - Bugaboo Stamps - Silhouette Butterfly

Papers - PTI Cardstock & Kraft

Tools - EK Success Border Punch

Extra STUFF - Dimensionals, Computer colored images, Computer generated sentiment & BLING

Head on over to The Bug Blog and join the Anything Goes February Fun!

Hugs & Happy Days!

A little HUMOR for this Wednesday

How's about a little Humor this Wednesday.  

We're all chuckling a bit over at The Bug Blog.

What crazy holidays can we possibly be celebrating this week?

Today is Mother Goose Day, Friday is Lumpy Rug Day and Saturday is Bird Day and Space Day.

This month is National Photograph Month, National Hamburger Month (which makes my hubby VERY happy especially since it feels like spring might REALLY BE HERE!!), National Salad Month and National Barbecue Month (another holiday my hubby is all about celebrating!)

So, you can guess what we're celebrating this week - yep, National Barbecue Month!

Image - Bugaboo Stamps - AKV BBQ Hamburger

Papers - Kraft & Miscellaneous Scraps from my scrappy bin

Coloring - Copics
Tools - Cuttlebug, Nesties & Embossing plate

Extra STUFF - BLING, Colorbox Chestnut Roan & Warm Red Ink; Studio G BBQ Sentiment, Dimensionals & Doodling

Thanks so much for stoppin' by - here's wishin' you a funny kind of day and maybe even a good BBQ kind of day!

Hugs & Happy Days!

Freebie Friday at Bugaboo!

TGIF!!

Happy Freebie Friday!!

Today Jodie has the CUTEST little Cow to share! 

Pretty Cow as we're calling her - and why wouldn't she be with the flower in her mane?

This takes me back to my days as a kid growing up in the country and visiting a friend that lived on a dairy farm.  =)  The bottle fed baby cows were the sweetest!  

Image - Bugaboo Stamps - "Pretty Cow"

Papers - PTI & Coredinations Cardstock, Miscellaneous Prints from my Scrappy Bin

Coloring - Copics

Tools - EK Success Border Punch, Cuttlebug & Nesties

Extra STUFF - Felt for flower, Studio G Sentiment, Googley Eyes, Stickles, BLING, Dimensionals, Doodling & Stazon Jet Black Ink

Head over to The Bug Blog and see what other sweet projects were created using this adorable new Pretty Cow.  Then, don't forget to visit The Bugaboo Store and get yours!

Hugs & Happy Days!

Anything Goes Saturday at Bugaboo

You got it - a little Anything Goes today at Bugaboo.

I'm SO ready for Spring so this little cutie was a perfect Springy fit for today!

Image - Bugaboo Stamps - Ladybug Bear

Papers - Miscellaneous from my scrappy bin

Coloring - Copics

Tools - Cuttlebug, Nesties and EK Success Border Punch

Extra STUFF - Doodling, Stickles, Miscellaneous Sentiment, Chestnut Roan Colorbox Ink & Dimensionals

Come on over and join the Anything Goes FUN!

Hugs & Happy Days!

Gettin' Punchy with it!

Happy Saturday and welcome to Bugaboo Stamps/Catch The Bug Gettin' Punchy with it Challenge!!

I don't know about you but I have punches comin' outta my ears!!!  And I just LOVE LOVE LOVE usin' them!

So, this challenge is PERFECT to get those punches working again!!

You can use your edge punches, corner punches, dies - if it punches something out, dust it off and CREATE with us!!

Here's my take on the Gettin' Punchy challenge for this week -

 Image - Bugaboo Stamps Flower Vase Collection - Daisy Vase

Papers - Bazzill Orange Peel, Recollections Dots & Cosmo Cricket Stripes

Coloring - Copics (RV17, RV19, Y15, Y17, BG45, BG49, YG03, YG23, YG25)

Tools - EK Success Punch, Cuttlebug & Nestie Scalloped Circle

Extra Stuff - Satin Ribbon from my stash, Dimensionals, Miscellaneous Sentiment, Stazon Jet Black Ink

So there you have it with today's "Gettin' Punchy" Challenge at The Bug Blog!  You can get all the deets at The Bug Blog AND you can see how 'Punchy' our wonderful design team is!  You'll be inspired!!

This card has been entered into the following challenges -

Catch The Bug/Bugaboo Stamps - Gettin' Punchy

Annabelle Stamps Challenge - C8, SIO - birthday celebrations

Card Makin' Mamas - 2W, 2E, cards only - Go digi

Fun with Shapes & More - 2W, JFF, must include die cut/punch - what you want (anything goes)

Inspire Me Fridays - always anything goes

*NEW* Show and Tell - 1E - Anything goes

Lovin' Those Oldies!

I've finally realized that I've taken after my dad when it comes to a lot of things.  Two of those things are story telling (he's still the ULTIMATE story teller - I LAUGH just thinking about the stories he used to tell!)  The second - OLDIES, you know, those catchy songs from the 50's, 60's and early 70's.  I love getting in the car and tuning out to those Elvis, The Righteous Brothers, The Beach Boys, The Stones and all those songs. 

I remember traveling with my dad and singing those tunes - My dad was a great singer. 

Funny how thoughts like that can trigger so many happy memories!  =)

Of course, as usual I digress - so what do stories and OLDIES have to do with today's post?

It's an OLDIE BUT GOODIE Thursday at Bugaboo of course - see you KNEW I'd get there at some point!

Because I'm trying to get all my Easter and Spring cards together, I picked this Super Cute Spring Chick image.

Image - Bugaboo Stamps "Easter Chicks" Eggs

Papers - Bazzill & Basic Grey "Lemonade" & Kraft

Coloring - Copics

Tools - EK Success Punch

Extra STUFF - Dimensionals, Bling, Studio G Sentiment Stamp, Colorbox Magenta Ink & Ribbon from my stash

Be sure to pop over to The Bug Blog and see all the wonderful Oldies the team has used today to created.  I always find a few new ones I want to add to my collection on Thursdays!  =)

You've still got time to join us for this week's Spring Layers challenge too.  Play for your chance to win!

Hugs & Happy Days!

This Springy Easter card has been entered into the following challenges -
Die Cut Dreams - Easter
My Partner in Crafting Crime - Layer it up
Stamps R Us - Easter (1 of 2)
Fairy Knoll - Eggs or ovals (1 of 2)
Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes

Lots 'o Layers

Happy Saturday!!

We hope you've all had a terrific week and are just as excited about today's Catch The Bug Challenge as we are over at Bugaboo Stamps.

I don't know about you but I just LOVE the look of layers.  Lots of Layers!

So imagine how excited I was when I saw this week's challenge is a "Spring Fling of Four LAYERS"!

YEAH!!

Image - Bugaboo Stamps "Spring Chick"

Papers - Cosmo Cricket, Bazzill & Coredinations

Coloring - Copics

Tools - EK Success Punch

Extra STUFF - Doodling, Ribbon, Dimensionals & Bling

We'll pick 3 winners at random, typical 7, 4 and 2 image prizes.

Remember if you don't play, you can't win . . . . and with LAYERS?  It's SIMPLE!

 Hugs & Happy Days!

This spring chick has been entered into the following challenges -
Card Cupids – Dots and/or Stripes

Crafty Pad – Flowers
Creative Inspirations Paint – Spring (1 of 1)
Paper Sundaes – Spring Blossoms (3 of 3)
Sparkles Forum – Springtime
My Partner In Crafting Crime – Layer it Up
There's Magic in the Air – Let's Use Flowers

A Combo Challenge

Whew, another busy week! I had a Design Studio class Tuesday night at Live Laugh Love Scrap in Oxford and have been plugging away on an album for a client, but thought I'd put together a quick little card. I'm not sure how your creative process works, but sometimes actually FINISHING something when I have all these other projects that take a lot of time to finish is exhilarating.

This Gruffies image is from Aprile on the Cricut MB for the May MCPT Challenge. I love the lilacs on this image - they're now blooming our area. I'm hoping to find a lilac bush somewhere that I can pull over and cut a few lilacs off and enjoy at home. My oh my, I'd love a lilac bush in our yard. I digress - The Sketch is based on this weeks Challenge #38 from the House Mouse Monday Challenge. The inside says Sending you a Bouquet of Love, Happy Mothers' Day.
Just a little 2 birds, one stone kind of project. :)

Materials:

Gruffies Lavender Bouquet Stamp

Basic Grey LilyKate Collection

Ribbon from my stash
Silver Brads, Making Memories
Flowers: Primas and miscellaneous from my stash

Hope you're creativity is running wild and you're off to have a lovely Memorial Weekend!

Happy Craftin'!

Min

Penny Black - Think Spring Challenge

I just love this little 'Hoppy' Frog stamp from Penny Black.

This week's challenge over at the Penny Black Saturday Challenge Blog was to make a card using the 'Think Spring' theme.

Materials:

BG Sultry Papers-Dressy & Fashionable

Penny Black-Jump For Joy

Extras-"Hoppy Spring" Computer generated, Threading Water Punch, Distressed Stickles, Regular Stickles, MCPT, Pink textured paper from stash, Pop Dots

Happy Craftin' & Hoppy Spring - hope you're having a great day!

Min

Spring!

While the calendar says Spring is here, good ole' Mother Nature isn't really ready to let us have the weather and the flowers quite yet....so, I created a little bit of Spring with paper. Here's the final product of the Flower Chipboard album, hot off the studio table.

Materials Used:

Papers: We R Memory Keepers Papers - Nonsense Collection, White & Light Blue Cardstock

Cricut: Dreams Come True, Joys of The Season, Sports Mania, Storybook, Stretch Your Imagination, Walk In My Garden & Design Studio

Cuttlebug: D'Vine Swirl, Swiss Dots, Floral Screen, Textile

Prima - Got Flowers

Miscellaneous: Chestnut Roan Chalk Box, Orange Chalk Box, Googley Eyes, Buttons, My Favorite Things Stamp - Can ya Dig it stamp set "Love Grows", $1 G-Stamps, Stickles, Pop-dots for dimension, Raffia, Making Memories Copper Brads

Font: Computer Font printed & MCPT used w/Prism pencils

Thanks for stopping by and checking things out.

Happy Craftin'!

Min

HAPPY SPRING!

Now if only Mother Nature would hurry up and bring on the spring weather!!
In honor of today being the first day of spring, here's a quick photo of the cover of the Flower Chipboard album I've been working on. Not the greatest photo, it's much brighter and fun in person (I'll try to photograph with a white background when I take pics later), but you get the idea. Hopefully tomorrow between NCAA tourney games & cleaning/laundry I can get a few good photos of the entire album.

Paper is We R Memory Keepers, Nonsense collection, flower pot is Cricut WIMG, Circle is George, embossed with D'Vine Swirl Cuttlebug folder. Bloom Where U R Planted was computer generated, colored with Prisms & MCPT. Album has a total of 12 pages including front and back cover. Happy Spring - hope to have more photos tomorrow!

Happy Craftin! Min

Creative Chaos

Howdy All - I've been so bad blogging the last few days. Unfortunately, I don't have anything crafty to share today either - I've been working on a few jobs lately (Baby announcements for my 'cuz Teri who is having their first baby girl next week - YEAH! and several chipboard albums for hire and a class in April.)

Add to that, the SPRING CLEANING BUG that bit me last weekend (yep, I spent just about the entire weekend CLEANING!!!) and if I haven't told you about our new vacuum, you would understand WHY we have the Spring Cleaning Bug. We ended up getting a Riccar canister vacuum a few weekends ago and like Glen says, "It sure sucks". I say it'll suck the white off rice! Funny how this new vacuum is like having a new gaget or gizmo in your studio. Never thought I'd get this excited about a Vacuum.......In anycase, that pretty much sums up what's going on at The Kaymin Kantina!

However, I will share a photo from last summer - because we don't have kids, our cats are our kids. This was Tucker at 3 am the day Glen and I were leaving for Aruba. She'd attached herself to my carry-on (Yah, I know, hard to tell where the cat stops and the bags starts....).

I do hope to have something to show you in a few days. I'm also getting ready for my Entertaining at Home Party next weekend, so I have a few projects to get wrapped up for that as well. Looking to getting the girls together and welcoming SPRING!!

I hope everyone had a nice & safe St. Patty's Day yesterday and are finding creativity and happiness in the warmer weather as the flowers begin to bloom and the grass starts to get green again. Spring, here we come!

Happy Craftin'

Min